Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of the population of the six counties already are anxious to join with us and if you can get another one-sixth of the whole population of the six counties to support the idea of unity of Ireland, then you will have a majority for the unity of Ireland. When we have got that majority the problem of the unity of the country will be solved. . . . There has been no question of force in regard to the six counties. We recognize it would be a distasteful task and one which probably would not succeed and which ultimately...
...unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration off Valencia to warn the Spanish Leftist Government not to do any more "denting" with submarines or torpedoes. In the House of Commons open charges had been heard that the whole "Leipzig incident" was a Nazi fiction or nightmare...
...found jobs as plentiful as have this year's. Reported Chicago's Graduate Placement Bureau, 92% placed, average monthly salary $115. Yale: 45% placed, salary $120. Princeton, "anyone who wanted to land a job could do so." Harvard, "being hired 15% ahead of 1936." Columbia, "1937 will join 1936 and 1930 as peak years." Stanford, "50% increase in placements, salaries $105." U. S. Steel took 594 from 91 colleges, American Telephone & Telegraph 300, General Electric 700, Goodyear Tire and Firestone no each...
...more drink and an unguarded tongue fouled him with the authorities. He left town in a hurry, headed for General Amherst's French & Indian-fighting army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...
...ceremony over, there will be a dash for cars to join the 700 other guests under a spacious striped awning on the Du Pont lawn, eight miles away. Jimmy Duffy, favorite saloonkeeper of Philadelphia's younger drinking set, will pour with his celebrated efficiency. Meyer Davis' orchestra will play the bride and bridegroom's favorite dance numbers, Too Marvelous for Words, Tea for Two, The Lovebug will Bite You and Night and Day. Some time during these festivities, Franklin and his bride will slip away to board ship for a honeymoon in Europe. Back home this autumn...